Hindrances to Prayer, Part 2 (The Prayer Motivator Devotional #413)

Our prayer motivator verse from the Word of God today is Mark 11:15-17 which reads: "And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves; And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple. And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves."

Our prayer motivator quote today is from the The Edinburgh Missionary Conference. They said: "When the Church sets itself to pray with the same seriousness and strength of purpose that it has devoted to other forms of Christian effort, it will see the Kingdom of God come with power."

Our prayer motivator devotional today is part 2 of a new series titled "HINDRANCES TO PRAYER" from Dr. John R. Rice.

Jesus Himself lived in daily unhindered communion with the Father, so that He could say to His Father and our Father in John 11:42, "I knew that thou hearest me always." And all the teaching of the Lord Jesus about prayer shows that we too have a normal, day-by-day unhindered intercourse with God, asking and receiving, seeking and finding, knocking and having God open to us. He plainly said in John 16:24, "Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full." When we are told in James 4:2 that "ye have not, because ye ask not", it is proper to infer that God intended asking to be followed by having and that the Christian in the will of God can live day by day in the fullness of joy of having his prayers answered.

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